Lecture Slides Overview

We have prepared lecture slides based on the Key Points for each chapter. They are designed for lectures, so each slide contains only one or, at most, two key points. Key points appear at the end of each chapter in the book.

Illustrations

The slides include all the illustrations and most of the tables in the book. (Only very large tables with too much information to be sensibly presented in a lecture have been omitted.)

The illustrations are reproduced in full colour, so if you are using a translation or a locally published edition of the book that has been produced in black and white, you can refer to these slides to see the illustrations as they were intended.

The colour reproduction in the book is not true to the original images, owing to the limitations of colour printing. The slides give a much better idea of the colours intended, which is particularly important for those parts of the book which actually deal with colour, especially Chapters 5 and 10.

Formats

The slides are available in three formats:

PDF

This will provide the best quality for display, but you will not be able to do any editing unless you have Acrobat. (If you use MacOS X, PDFLab is an excellent utility that you could use to add, delete or re-order pages.) To show the PDF slides, open them in Adobe Reader, and use the View>Full Screen command to hide the menu bar etc. You can then use the right and left arrow keys to move forwards and backwards between slides. Use escape to exit the slideshow.

PowerPoint compatible

These slides consist of the PDF pages pasted into their own PowerPoint slides. This means that you can display them using PowerPoint, and you can add your own slides or delete some of ours. You can even add transitions, if you like. You will not be able to edit the content of individual slides. We have not done extensive tests, but a cursory trial using NeoOffice indicates that these slides can also be used with OpenOffice.org's Impress presentation tool, if you prefer to use Open Source software instead of Microsoft's.

If anybody desperately wants the slides in Apple's Keynote, contact us, and we'll see about creating something similar to the PowerPoint version for Keynote.

Flash

A Flash movie of the slides is embedded in each page in this section of the site. This is primarily so that you can have a look at the slides before downloading them in one of the other formats. If you wish you may download the SWF files and use them on a Web site, provided that site is only used as teaching support for a course at your institution. We do not recommend using these movies for projecting slides in a lecture, as the quality is not good enough for displaying at a large size.

You need version 8 or higher of the FlashPlayer plug-in or ActiveX control to play the embedded slides.

Player controls for the Flash Slides

Left double arrow = previous slide; right double arrow = next slide; single arrow = play (change slide every five seconds); square = stop playing.

Problems with Downloading?

Depending on how your browser's preferences are set, some of these types of file may open in a browser window or some other application instead of being saved to disk if you click on the download links. If that happens, right-click (or control-click if you are using a one-button mouse on a Mac) on the link, and select the option to save the linked file to disk from the context menu that appears. The exact phrasing differs among browsers. (Firefox: Save Link As..., Explorer: Save Target As..., and so on.)